Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mallardi believes strongly in the ideal of the suffering artist. According to her, no true artist, including the photographer, should expect to make a dime from his or her work. "Every great artist came from poverty," Mallardi told me. "The worst thing was to go home and tell your family. Now the arts are being permeated by the middle class, and the middle class is funding mediocrity...
...York it celebrated. The aims of constructivism - an ideal system, beyond dialectics - meant little to him. Reality, for Davis, was dialectic and it expressed itself in strain. His paintings are all about unstable energy, and in this too he was a most "American" artist. No matter how firmly Davis insisted on their abstract basis, all his images feed back into the world: he never seems to have doubted his subject or lost touch with it, so that his best works are triumphs of candor. - Robert Hughes
Fans of TV's All in the Family might remember what happened a few seasons back when Edith Bunker sent Archie's favorite chair out for reupholstering. Some modern artist spirited away the old seat, labeled it "A Genuine American Gothic" and put it on sale for $2,000. Now life has imitated TV art, and Archie's chair, along with Edith's, is headed for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Last week during a break in the show's taping, Producer Norman Lear presented the chairs to Carl Scheele, curator of the Smithsonian...
...most innocent places and people and make real the paranoia that so many people seem to feel. The Fury invites the audience to take pleasure in the revenge of those who are exceptional, in their final, violent turning against the straight world. One suspects that telepathic characters are artist-figures to De Palma, that conceivably, in his dealings with Hollywood producers, he has wished on occasion he had psychokinetic powers. Be that as it may, The Fury can be enjoyed, by those prepared for some colorful blood spillage when the kids get riled, simply as an engrossing thriller...
...funniest parts of his account maliciously attest. (Ted Morgan's Uncle Armand once brought Marcel Proust to lunch. Afterward the due de Gramont, Armand's father, handed his guest book to the already famous author "and with the total disdain of the nobleman for the artist, said, 'Just your name, Mr. Proust. No thoughts.' ") The U.S. he sees as still an open society, free and easy, rambunctious, optimistic, cheerfully ready to build on both its successes and its mistakes. He likes American lingo and quotes a lot of it (Harry Truman on Jack Kennedy...